I say it was some father issue.Or something at boarding school.This is a troubled human being. But a strange minority coalition saw the candidate in its own personal fun-house mirror and put its money and fears and superstitions and prejudices on this lumbering figure. Diamond Jim.

But boredom, confinement, anxiety, fear, could lead to resignation: I’m outta here.

Then there is the Big Mac Theory.

6-1?

I’m not a betting man. Won’t even place a two-dollar bet in the pressbox at the Derby. Long story.

But I’m curious about the odds of him lasting in office.

Last November, I found some odds on-line from the British bookies (some people will bet on anything.)

The odds were 3-1 or 6-1 that the new guy would not last four years. Might have been wishful thinking.

However, my cursory glimpse at the current web discloses no new odds. Why is that? Better to wager on soccer – when will Chelsea lose? Important stuff like that.

I’m in denial, or withdrawal.I can’t take cable news anymore. I put on the stereo and listen to the great Terrance McKnight on WQXR-FM.​I’m reading Dickens’ “A Child’s History of England,” refreshing my views of Richard III and Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell. (Dickens called him “A most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the History of England") Fair and balanced.

You can't make book without taking the bets, George. I'm in for a hundred Trumpsters on the ten to one. Happy New Year!
All best,

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George Vecsey

1/4/2017 02:23:00 pm

Brian, if he were on a bill, it would be the $3.
I'm betting more than money -- my "reputation" as a wise sage of politics, having gotten on the train early for presidents Stevenson, Humphrey, McGovern, Gore, Kerry and Sanders.
Happy New Year.
GV

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Laura Vecsey

1/4/2017 01:03:59 pm

We were in Baltimore this weekend. We literally walked right into Martin O'Malley in front of his home there. "What do you think, Governor?" To which O'Malley said he really likes Michael Moore's theory: "Maybe he won't be sworn in at all." So, I'm still not into the reality of his actual presidency, as long as it's not Jan. 20 yet. After that ... I'm making a bet, too.

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George Vecsey

1/4/2017 02:23:56 pm

Where is he when we need him?
Pop

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Doug Logan

1/4/2017 01:21:40 pm

We went to Natural History Museum last Saturday. Grand quotes from Teddy Roosevelt on the walls. This bozo has not said, nor will he say, anything worth a chisel. I take contrarian view. We have been sentenced to four years of solipsism for abusing our duties as citizens and giving credence to phony celebrity, talentless charlatans, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Dancing With the Stars, and OJ.

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George Vecsey

1/4/2017 02:27:12 pm

Sr: I don't know about that. I could see his speech to Billy Bush up on Mount Rushmore.
I can hear his epic campaign speech "Get him out of here!" wafting from the gilded halls of Trump Memorial along the Potomac.
He's an inspirational kind of American.
GV

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John McDermott

1/4/2017 04:24:52 pm

I don't see him lasting very long either. I see him resigning rather than transparently address conflict of interest issues. He also looks like a heart attack waiting to happen. However it goes, we will end up with that prick Pence in the White House. One thing for certain, it's embarrassing that the USA has elected such a "cafone".

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George Vecsey

1/4/2017 04:30:55 pm

Hai regione. Buon capodanno.

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bruce

1/4/2017 07:26:26 pm

george,

saw charlie manson was trending on twitter this morning.

my first thought was trump had named him to his cabinet.

your comment was pence might not be seen as sarcasm. i mentioned to you early on i thought he might be worse than trump.

guess we'll have to wait until trump gets impeached or chokes to death on a big mac to see for sure.

bruce

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George Vecsey

1/4/2017 07:47:13 pm

No, but he's carrying a lot of Big Mac weight under that topcoat. Docs may order R&R within 18 months.
Same docs that got him out of the military, what, five times?
GV

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bruce

1/4/2017 07:53:31 pm

george,

no no....he sees a 35 year old when he looks in the mirror.

deferred four times. not sure for what and then bone spurs, wasn't it?

bruce

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Frank Barning

1/5/2017 09:54:24 am

What is the Big Mac Theory?

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bruce

1/5/2017 12:52:28 pm

frank,

i reckon it's more a wish than a theory.

funny how a guy who is hypercritical of the way other people look and is obese with more chins than a chinese phone book--am i allowed to say that these days??--seems fixated on how OTHERS look.

bruce

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George Vecsey

1/5/2017 11:56:19 am

Hey, Frank: I was alluding to the man's unhealthy diet of junk food.
He's way overweight and doesn't look good.
I would settle for a doctor's note, getting him (and us) out of this untenable situation.
I think Bruce is a little more blunt about it, right above.
Best
George

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Hansen Alexander

1/16/2017 07:19:14 pm

George,

I really do think you're on to something here. And Jesse Ventura, as I said somewhere, sets the example. As Michael Moore suggested, the Fuhrer probably did not expect, or really want, to get elected. I go back to the interview he gave your successors in the early fall on foreign policy, in which, among other things, he claimed to know more about foreign policy than anybody in the State Department. I don't know how to input links so please excuse references from memory. In any case, in the interview with David Sanger and others, Trump blurted out in a sort of dazzled daze, "You know, I have a serious chance to be President of the United States."

He already seems to be taking steps to spend as little time in the White House as possible.

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